Erik Simpson

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830 (eBook, PDF)

Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money

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Produktbeschreibung

The presence in Romantic-era literature of the mercenary is historically important, but often neglected. This book proposes the mercenary as a focal point for transatlantic analysis in both American and European contexts. The mercenary of popular imagination disregards patriotic feeling in contracting to serve whatever commander will pay well. Like the slave, the mercenary ends up obeying a master with no claim of national, religious, or familial affiliation. The mercenary's choice to serve an alien master (often by crossing the Atlantic) thus stands at once for the overindulgence of freedom and the failure to appreciate its value. Substantial primary research underpins an argument with suggestive metaphorical and symbolic implications traced through a range of writing by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Byron and Charlotte Smith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748636457
• Artikelnr.: 38220501

Autorenporträt

is an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College and the author of Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mercenary
Contractor
Volunteer
Slave; 1. Ormond's Fighters: Authorship
Soldiering
and the Transatlantic Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Encountering the Mercenary: Native American Auxiliaries
the American Revolution
and Charlotte Smith; 3. 'A Good One though Rather for the Foreign Market': Walter Scott
Lord Byron
and the Romantic Mercenary; 4. Loyalty
Independence
and James Fenimore Cooper's Revolution; 5. The Bravos of Venice; Epilogue: Mercenaries and the Modern Military; Works Cited; Index.